Bloom

Republic of Bloom
Capital City	Bloom
Government	Parliamentary Democracy
Prime Minister	Aleh56 (aka alzdadog)
Founded	January 2017
Other Settlements	New Siata, New Boston, Angullia, Narda, Fort Dale
Demonym	Bloomean, Bloom, Bloomese, Bloomer
Population	~28
Location	[1]

History

Founding

The Republic of Bloom was founded in January 2017 by dBeatzx, the first and only President of the Republic. It was founded on the principles of freedom and democracy. Originally the capital itself consisted of several Victorian style manor houses and a small quartz town hall - the original town was eventually demolished to make way for a much larger city plan.

Much of Bloom's early population came from the town of Angullia, led by Slushhi, which agreed to join Bloom. By the end of May Angullia's citizens had organised into a political party, Angullia Republic.

The first general election was held from the 1st to the 4th of June, 2017.

June 2017 General Election Results

Aleh56 Ministry

Building the capital

City of Bloom in June 2017 with Parliament on the left and an incomplete Bank on the right.

Monaco/Angullia split

Stagnation

Autumn of Discontent

Cazards Ministry

*cut upkeep

*arumos has been instrumental in keeping Bloom alive during this period and was the biggest contributor to 'Project Bloom'

Arumos Ministry

As voting commenced for Prime Minister a dispute arose between Arumos and darkhorse18909 over the ownership of a snow golem grinder. After an inconclusive first round, Arumos was elected Prime Minister with 4 votes to 3 in Parliament. Over the next two weeks progress was completely stalled as Arumos and darkhorse18909 engaged in arguing, minor griefing and attempting to raid each others homes. An ultimatum was issued by the Conservatives who were supporting Arumos in government for the disputes to end or he would be voted out of office. With the conflict continuing, then a Conservative MP, Nessie97 started a vote of no confidence in Arumos. The Conservatives, now led by Rakoch_, decided to push for an early general election instead of voting out Arumos. In light of the early general election, the vote of no confidence was rejected.

Nessie97 Ministry

As the election loomed, Nessie97 brought together Arumos and darkhorse18909 who had put their differences aside and formed a new party, the United Alliance. In the October 2017 election the United Alliance performed well taking 4 out of 9 seats, with the Conservatives also taking 4 and the Democratic Republicans taking 1 seat. In the Prime Minister election that followed Nessie97 was comfortably elected with Conservative MP FlyingHamster22 voting for Nessie97 rather than the Conservative candidate, Rakoch_. Nessie97 also secured the support of the Democratic Republican MP, CasualNuker. Nessie97 chose to work with the Conservatives and appointed several Conservative MPs to his cabinet.

The new government continued to be gripped by conflict, at the end of the previous term Nessie97 had attempted to ban iOminous from Bloom.

Ezvark split

Rakoch_ Ministry

The City of Bloom in January 2018. Under Rakoch_, much of the city was finally completed.

Reform

New party system.

Abolition of taxes.

Growth

After nearly four months of stagnation and then decline Bloom began to grow again. At the end of November 2017 Bloom's population was at it's lowest levels since April that year. Aided by an influx of new players, an end to infighting and a host of new assistants, Bloom experienced the most rapid growth in it's history - going from just 68 citizens to 201 by the end of Rakoch_'s term.

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Rise of the Liberals and the meme war

Conservative Party advertisement from December 2017 attacking the Liberal leader, dBeatzx (left) and United Alliance leader, Nessie97 (right).

In December 2017, Bloom's original founder and first and only President, dBeatzx, returned to found the Liberal Party with independent MP, Slushhi. The Liberal Party grew quickly taking a lot of party members from the Conservatives. The Liberal Party continued it's rise when it absorbed the United Alliance, with Nessie97 replacing Slushhi as the Deputy Leader of the newly rebranded Liberal Alliance.

The Conservative minority government faced wipeout with the Liberal Alliance looking likely to win 7 out of 9 seats in the Bloom Parliament. Around this time, the meme war between the Conservatives and the Liberals began.

Throughout the meme war the two sides relentlessly attacked each other with propaganda.

With a month still to go before the next election the Liberals were reaching a high. In Parliament the Liberals held 4 out of 9 seats, with the Conservative government also clinging on with 4 out of 9 seats. Soon the Liberals would disintegrate after Nessie97 and the United Alliance left the Liberal Alliance and Slushhi was reinstated as party deputy leader. Weeks before the January General Election dBeatzx resigned as party leader causing chaos within the remaining party. Now worried about the prospects of not being elected to Parliament, most of the Liberal candidates defected to the Conservatives.

Collapse of the Conservatives

Deciding not to contest the next election, Rakoch_ announced he was standing down as Conservative leader. Only two candidates came forward for the Conservative leadership, Boombox59 and FlyingHamster22. Boombox59 was elected party leader by the majority of party members several weeks before the election.

With the Liberals tearing themselves apart many of the candidates defected to the Conservatives and the ill-fated decision was taken by the new leader to accept them as Conservative candidates in the new 15 seat Parliament.

Liberal Party advertisement from December 2017 attacking the Conservatives on the number of incomplete buildings in the city.

The election was held at the end of January, the Conservatives won by a landslide with 78.57% of the vote to United Alliance's 21.43%. The decision to take in ex-Liberals as candidates proved fatal for Boombox59 when 4 other newly elected Conservative MPs put themselves forward for Prime Minister. In a surprise turn of events, FlyingHamster22 was elected Prime Minister with 9 out of 15 votes - including support from the United Alliance.

The new FlyingHamster22 led Conservative government got off to a controversial start when Nessie97, leader of the United Alliance, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister - angering ambitious Conservative MPs, with some threatening to vote of no confidence the Prime Minister.

Controversy continued to stalk the government with infighting between the Deputy Prime Minister, Nessie97, and the Housing Secretary, InvictusX. InvictusX was using new powers to evict Nessie97 from land close to the centre of the city. The conflict spilled over into the High Court where InvictusX was accused of abuse of power but the case quickly fell apart. Minor conflicts and arguments continued to arise.

With the Conservative Party too split and the government blocked by infighting an early election seemed inevitable. Two time former Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Conservative MP, truejedi52, founded a new party, the Traditionalists and was supported by defections from 5 Conservative MPs: cazards, Rakoch_, dBeatzx, alzdadog and iOminous. Voting for an early election, the Traditionalists continued to support FlyingHamster22's government until the election.

The Conservative Party suffered another split as two more Conservative MPs, Slushhi and Xcios, left to form their own party, the Reform Party.

truejedi52 Ministry and Limbo

After just 23 days the 6th term Parliament had voted for an early election, with support from the Conservative leader Boombox59, the Traditionalists were able to come to power and truejedi52 was elected Prime Minister.

February 2018 General Election Results

Party	Leader	Votes (%)	Seats	Seats (%)	Swing (%)
Traditionalists	truejedi52	39.29%	6	40.00%	+39.29%
Conservatives	Boombox59	25.00%	4	26.67%	-53.57%
Reform Party	Slushhi	21.43%	3	20.00%	+21.43%
United Alliance	Nessie97	17.86%	2	13.33%	-3.57%

Despite the recent turmoil Bloom had remained prosperous and was continuing to grow. However, this came to an end when 10 days into truejedi52's term rumours surfaced that the server, Rebirthcraft, was being sold. Eventually this was confirmed to be true and after massive uncertainty and instability the server was reset.

Determined to carry on and rebuild Bloom, truejedi52 began planning and building the infrastructure for the new Bloom with the continued support of most of Bloom's citizens. Unfortunately the same server instability continued and Parliament agreed to relocate Bloom to Arctic Worlds - a split from Rebirthcraft.

On Arctic, progress for the new Bloom was slow and activity was at rock bottom but the nation carried on. The government was down to 2/15 MPs towards the end of the term but managed to hang on due to inactivity from the other parties in Parliament.

2nd Aleh56 Ministry

Decline

Towards the end of the term, ex-Traditionalist MP and former Prime Minister Aleh56 (alzdadog) founded the Free Democratic Party taking members from the Traditionalists. At the same time, Slushhi transformed the Reform Party into the Libertarian Party. The next election was held on schedule saw the FDP come to power in an alliance with the Conservatives. Nessie97 became acting Prime Minister after truejedi52 lost his seat in Parliament, two days later alzdadog was narrowly elected Prime Minister by Parliament after a tie with Slushhi had lasted several days.

April 2018 General Election Results

Party	Leader	Votes (%)	Seats	Seats (%)	Swing (%)
Free Democratic Party	alzdadog	42.86%	5	41.67%	+42.86%
Libertarian Party	Slushhi	38.10%	5	41.67%	+38.10%
Conservatives	Boombox59	14.29%	2	16.67%	-10.71%
Traditionalists	truejedi52	4.76%	0	0.00%	-34.52%

Over the next month little progress was made, despite a rise in activity, Arctic Worlds continue to experience critical problems and eventually began collapsing.

Prime Ministers of Bloom

Every elected Prime Minister of Bloom since the first elections were held in June 2017.

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Political Party	Government
1		Aleh56	7th of June 2017	15th of August 2017	2 months, 6 days (69 days total)	Conservative	1st Aleh56 Ministry (CON Majority)
2		cazards	15th of August 2017	22nd of September 2017	1 month, 7 days (38 days total)	Conservatives	cazards Ministry (CON Majority)
3		Arumos	22nd of September 2017	11th of October 2017	19 days	New Republic	Arumos Ministry (NR - CON Coalition)
4		Nessie97	11th of October 2017	28th of November 2017	1 month, 17 days (48 days total)	United Alliance	Nessie97 Ministry (UA - CON Coalition)
5		Rakoch_	28th of November 2017	30th of January 2018	2 months, 2 days (63 days total)	Conservatives	Rakoch_ Ministry (CON Majority)
6		FlyingHamster22	30th of January 2018	21st of February 2018	22 days	Conservatives	FlyingHamster22 Ministry (CON - TRAD - UA Coalition)
7		truejedi52	21st of February 2018	23rd of April 2018	2 months, 2 days (61 days total)	Traditionalist	truejedi52 Ministry (TRAD Minority)
-		Nessie97 (acting)	23rd of April 2018	25th of April 2018	2 days	Free Democratic Party
8		Aleh56	25th of April 2018	11th of June 2018	-	Free Democratic Party	2nd Aleh56 Ministry (FDP - CON Coalition)
			11th of June 2018	Incumbent			3rd Aleh56 Ministry (FDP - CON Coalition)